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May 21st, 2003
Activism

NASA: The Future as Past?

[I suppose we should praise NASA for being open-minded, but I just can’t help thinking that this is an implicit admission that current NASA techniques are not up to the job. The prospect of depending on retired engineers for a next generation system is an implicit admission of failure to perform since the days of […]

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May 20th, 2003
Green Party

The Green Factor - “swing” voters on the left will decide 2004.

2004 is not the year of the “swing” voter in the center… it is the year of the “swing” voter on the left.
Simply put, the Democrats cannot swing right without losing almost as many votes as they gain… nominate Lieberman, and you practically guarantee a double digit showing for the Green candidate in California and […]

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May 17th, 2003
Work

Series of articles on Britain’s experiments with e-voting

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/0,12767,866760,00.html
[Whole series of articles on Britain’s e-government initiative. -Thomas]
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/comment/0,12767,939004,00.html
[Cites concerns from various technical folk, German suspicion of vote-selling. -Thomas]
E-vote early, e-vote often?
Last week, the government unveiled an ambitious new e-voting pilot scheme. But does the technology really work? Matthew Tempest and Martin Nicholls report
Thursday April 17, 2003
Contain yourselves, but more people will […]

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May 15th, 2003
Activism

“A world conducive to life.”

[There is hardly anything left to say… we sit in our little cocoons of wealth and privilege, and tsk-tsk about the degradation of the environment… fiddling while Rome burns. -Thomas]
The End of Sustainability
PAUL HAWKEN
I was recently asked to give a talk in Melbourne, Australia, to a group of business people to make a case for […]

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May 15th, 2003
Activism

Dan Rather: “a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck”

[The Dan Rather quote below is disturbing beyond words. If one of the most powerful newsmen in America feels intimidated, how much pressure must the average reporter feel? -Thomas]

Whatever Happened to Bin Laden?, Greg Palast
On my BBC television show, Newsnight, an American journalist confessed that, since the 9/11 attacks, US reporters are simply too afraid […]

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May 14th, 2003
Activism

Reading the News

How can anyone stand to actually read the news? Almost anything you read with regard to the natural environment is uninformly horrifying and depressing… one tale after another of ecological devistation and destruction…

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May 14th, 2003
Activism

Dolphin Genocide

[Dolphins are quite possibly as intelligent as we are… can you imagine watching everyone around you dying, your cultural heritage crumbling away with each passing, looking forward you see nothing but more death, and facing the possibility of being one of the last of your kind… swimming fruitlessly through the ocean or river, looking for […]

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May 14th, 2003
Activism

Strip mining the seas…

[I can’t really figure out which scares me more… the ecological devastation implicit in this report… or the utterly clueless response of the Bush Administration official. -Thomas]
Study: Big ocean fish nearly gone
The Bush administration met the study with caution.
“There’s nothing that assures us that the data […]

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May 14th, 2003
Activism

Published again in UK Libertarian journal

Sean Gabb on American Culture: A Comment by Thomas Leavitt

… you gotta love the Internet - my words are more widely published in England, across the Atlantic, in a libertarian journal, that they are here in the U.S.

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May 14th, 2003
Work

Wire yourself into the NorCal Linux/Geek scene

Bay Area Linux Events

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May 12th, 2003
Activism

Willaim Bennett - hypocrite?

[I actually am of two minds about the media frenzy here. Bennett is a smarmy hypocrite, yes… but, I hope that advocates of personal freedom don’t loose site of the core issue here: Bennett’s gambling problem isn’t a moral failing (as he would paint it himself), but in all likelihood, a psychological/medical issue. Let’s not […]

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May 7th, 2003
Home and Family

Santa Cruz 100 Years Ago

[What a different world! -Thomas]
Santa Cruz Evening News
August 2, 1901 (Front Page)
Thirty Years on Thirty Acres
Or the Story of Life at the Riverside by the River’s Side in Santa Cruz
Hundreds probably thousands in the yearly aggregate of Santa Cruz
visitors arrive and tarry and depart without ever being aware of what
lies behind the fringe […]

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May 7th, 2003
Work

SARS - fatal nature due to secondary infection?

[To me, this screams, biological warfare agent… I can’t really say why, other than that it would seem to be an awful co-incidence for a symbiotic disease to emerge so quickly, with such a high fatality rate, and it would seem to me to be a logical “safety” mechanism to require two agents to be […]

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May 7th, 2003
Activism

May Day = Loyalty Day

[If you ain’ with is, you aggin’ us. All dem unLoyal folks celebratin’ May Day instead of Loyalty day is unpatriotic traitors. -Thomas]
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/04/20030430-26.html
Loyalty Day, 2003
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
To be an American is not a matter of blood or birth. Our citizens are
bound by ideals that represent the hope of […]

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